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List of power stations in New Zealand

This is a list of power stations in New Zealand.

The list is not exhaustive – only power stations over 0.5 MW and significant power stations below 0.5 MW are listed.

Power plants in New Zealand have different generating roles – for baseload, intermediate or peaking. Baseload generators are those that run continuously (except for maintenance), and include all geothermal and run-of-the-river hydroelectric plants, which must 'use it or lose it'. Intermediate generators are load-following power plants. Peaking power plants generate only for minutes or hours at a time, during the sharpest peaks in electricity demand.[2] Nuclear power is not used in New Zealand.

Bioenergy

Geothermal

Hydroelectric

Decommissioned hydroelectric

Heritage hydroelectric

Fossil-fuel thermal

Source:[9]

Wind

Sources:[9][16][17]

Solar

Grid battery storage

Proposed power stations

Source:[16]

See also

  • Energy in New Zealand
  • Electricity sector in New Zealand
  • List of New Zealand spans
  • New Zealand electricity market

Further reading

External links

References

  1. PowerStations.kmz file (compressed, ~200KB) via the Centralised Dataset DVD from the Electricity Commission, or via Dropbox (251 KB) https://www.dropbox.com/s/a35lz3bs1cvlsc9/PowerStations.kmz?dl=0 also http://www.emi.ea.govt.nz/Datasets/Browse?directory=/StationList&parentDirectory=/Datasets/Wholesale/Archive/201310_Centralised_dataset/CentralisedDataset/NetworkConfiguration/Generation See the substations and transmission lines via Network.kmz (2 MB) on the DVD or via https://www.dropbox.com/s/z6c33jsob4zynin/Network.kmz?dl=0 also http://www.emi.ea.govt.nz/Datasets/Browse?directory=/TransmissionLineLocations&parentDirectory=/Datasets/Wholesale/Archive/201310_Centralised_dataset/CentralisedDataset/NetworkConfiguration/TransmissionNetwork^
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